Programme Manager

Anticipated Contract End Date/Length: April 30 2027
Work Setup: Hybrid (3 days per week in office / 40% remote)
Clearance Required: BPSS eligibility required

Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for a Programme Manager to lead complex global data and change programmes overseeing Project Managers Scrum Masters Business Analysts and contingent resources across multiple locations. The role will own programme delivery governance stakeholder engagement resource and financial management and execution across key data-related initiatives.

What you will do:

• Own programme delivery strategy execution scope benefits governance roadmaps and adoption plans across multiple workstreams.
• Lead Project Managers Scrum Masters PMOs and contingent resources across complex global deliveries ensuring commitments are met for scope schedule budget and benefits.
• Manage programme reporting governance OKRs benefits realisation stage gates and audit-ready documentation for relevant stakeholders and committees.
• Lead programme intake and integrated triage of new work and change requirements establishing requirements scope capabilities and budget.
• Manage resource planning pricing and detailed budgets in partnership with delivery leads ensuring alignment with deliverables and actual effort.
• Own risks issues dependencies and change control acting as an escalation point and driving solutions with integrated teams and stakeholders.
• Manage third-party negotiations and oversee service agreement and contract performance.
• Establish delivery dashboards and reporting using approved tools such as JIRA and Confluence to monitor financial health deliverables KPIs and OKRs.
• Establish controls procedures and quality assurance processes aligned with applicable Change and Risk and Controls frameworks.
• Lead platform and data migration programmes including SAS covering option analysis target-state design roadmaps environment readiness testing parallel runs cutover and back-out planning.
• Manage SAS migration dependencies remediation data lineage reconciliation and post-migration assurance to maintain data integrity and effective controls.
• Partner with business engineering operations risk security and vendors to manage expectations training adoption and operational handover.
• Coach and mentor Project Management and Scrum teams manage performance and workloads resolve escalations and develop delivery capability.
• Partner with global Programme Managers and the Programme Office to implement delivery strategy and continuously improve programme management practices.
• Participate in Programme Steering Committees and Working Groups providing effective governance and decision-making support.
• Lead and motivate high-performing global teams across multiple locations cultures and matrix structures.

Qualifications :

• Bring 8 years of programme management and delivery leadership experience managing large complex global change programmes across multiple workstreams.
• Demonstrate proven experience with platform and data migration programmes including SAS and strong knowledge of migration dependencies remediation lineage reconciliation and assurance.
• Possess strong financial services experience within regulated environments with an understanding of risk security operations audit and commercial requirements.
• Demonstrate comprehensive business and commercial knowledge including how products regions value units and legal entities integrate to support organisational objectives.
• Apply strong change management and governance discipline across scope benefits RAID dependencies stage gates controls and decision-making.
• Show the ability to lead and influence stakeholders from Executive Committee and Managing Director level through to analysts using strong communication diplomacy and negotiation skills.
• Demonstrate experience leading and developing high-performing global teams across disciplines locations cultures and matrix structures.
• Bring a strategic solution-oriented approach to complex problems competing priorities and continuous improvement with strong attention to detail.
• Apply Agile methodologies across programme and product development; Agile certification such as SAFe is advantageous.
• Communicate proficiently in spoken and written English and demonstrate excellent written verbal and presentation skills.

Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Candidates must be legally authorized to live and work in the country where the position is based without requiring employer sponsorship.

HelloKindred is committed to fair transparent and inclusive hiring practices. We assess candidates based on skills experience and role-related requirements.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity. While we review every application carefully only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

HelloKindred is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race colour religion sex gender identity or expression sexual orientation age national origin disability veteran status or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract